Does anybody MISS smoking??

[computertech83]

No i dont miss smoking, and surely don't miss paying the price for analogs. I really like vaping, and one of the added benefits, it gives me something to tinker with (a hobby). I don't ever recall anyone saying that smoking analogs was a hobby , LOL

 

[Peter_C]

I quit smoking last AUG. 2PAD for 30+ years. I do miss 'smoking'. I do not miss all the stink and mess, but like others, the first smoke of the day, the ease of smoking while doing other stuff - grab my smokes and lighter and go. If I run out somehow, the nearest store will hook me up. Drop/lose my bic - who cares? Trash my eVic while mowing - ruined my day~!

Everyone says it's better for me to quit, honestly I cannot see any changes. I miss the fact that ever single smoke was the same - no juice in my mouth, no dry hits, no flooding, no searching for the perfect juice. I am a creature of habit. vaping *did* make quitting painless for me, I do not feel like I am suffering, but yes, I do miss smoking...

 

[notchback331]

over here in new york its over $10 a pack so i don't miss the price. now that i have been vaping for three months straight, i hate the smell of analogs. i'm in the process of converting my girlfriend by giving her my old stuff. she's down to a couple of analogs a weekend with none during the week. vaping is the only way that has worked for me.

 

[Buffyisabean]

I had one drag of a cigarette exactly one year from my last analog (this past August) and it was disgusting. Don't miss it! Yuck!

 

[Steelgirl]

I only miss the simplicity. Nothing else.

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That's me too. Miss the easy slip one out of pack, fire up the lighter, toss the .... when finished. A lot more maintenance these egigs are.

 

[Limner]

I was fortunate to be able to make an immediate and seamless transition from cigarettes (2 packs per day for 39 years) to vaping.
During the first two weeks after quitting tobacco, the only times I missed it was the first half hour of the day, where eliquids just didn't seem to cut it, and was even slightly nauseating. For the most part, I was able to get past that by brushing my teeth twice as long, making my morning coffee stronger, and beginning the day with a strong cheap 555 with a funky degenerate sort of taste.
Since then, I don't miss it at all.

 

[Ultra-X]

i miss it! (me on day 14)
As a few have mentioned on here, im one of those that actually enjoyed smoking.
The smell of that first puff when just lit, the motion and the ease and the automatic smoker's club membership
at any non-smoking establishment. All of this is super desirable.
However, i am giving it up and not wanting to go back. And the patches and gums don't work cuz
i liked smoking, so at least, vaping is close enough, and can be a whole hobby in and of itself, so
i'll just vape instead and be healthier and less stinkier!

 

[HybridTea]

I've been amazingly lucky with a seamless transition...hope it continues. I have not missed smoking this week at all. Don't know how I will feel in the coming months.

Oddly enough I get a short instant weird startle every once in a while, where my brain tells me I took a drag a few minutes ago and then forgot about it so there MUST be a cigarette still burning somewhere that I need to take care of!

I got lucky that the first bottle of juice I bought at the cigarette store - they only have one brand and I didn't know anything at all except that I wanted a high nicotine strength and a menthol - turned out to be Liqua, which is a decent brand. Since then, I have tried a couple others and discovered that if I'd gotten those first, I'd have given the whole thing up immediately. So, lucky lucky lucky!

 

[evan le'garde]

If i were 20 years younger, then smoking would be something i'd be doing !.

 

[narcosis]

i noticed that if you vape for about 3 months and try an analog it really makes you wonder why you ever smoked. partly because after 3 months you have taste buds again and you can smell much better also your brain is starting to rewire itself to hate them. i use to smoke and chew at the same time, i gotta say smoking was much easier to quit.

 

[SkvLTD]

Just from seeing it said enough, I like how lots of you refer to sublimation as "analog" to evaporation.

Being fairly young, I still smoke because its not a taste and feel liquids could replace, but I get my packs fairly cheap and smoke about a pack/3 days (/4-5 if I've work to get done and its just not on my bored mind). Vaping is great for its sheer convenience and of course, price point if you don't shell out 100-200 a few months for new, unnecessary toys when it becomes a hobby rather than a simple alternative to nicotine intake.

My only closing note is that I'm not addicted to nor nicotine nor additives in our american health sticks contain(other parts of the world don't seem to add as much actual carcinogens as we do here because they don't need to do their best to make SURE people get addicted) and do both mostly for the taste/social thing to do/boredom. Expanding into new communities and circles of people is definitely the main end goal than the process of getting there for me.

 

[choochoogranny]

3 mos 5 days and I'm having too much fun to think about analogs. There's tips, tanks, juice, colored replacement glass! Back in the day a cigarette case and/or fancy lighter was all you could aim for. After 53 yrs on analogs, I'm having a better, healthier time.

 

[james chapman]

Not no,but hell no

 

[DillPickles666]

He'll to the no no

 

[Jman8]

I don't miss smoking, and have been vaping for 2 years.

Then again, I am one that allows myself to smoke and do still have an occasional smoke. IOW, I do both. Around 85% vaping and 15% time smoking, on average.

When I quit cold turkey (in my 20's) for 8.5 years, I very rarely missed smoking then, while feeling very confident I wouldn't have one and while always giving myself permission to have one. Didn't need to hate on smoking to enjoy my life of non-smoking then. Why vapers feel a need to hate on smoking is bizarre to me, but I kinda sorta think I know what is going on there.

I can name 3 to 5 pros that smoking has that vaping doesn't. Some have already been brought up in this thread. Just yesterday when I had a great experience with a log, I felt that a log satisfies in a way that vaping can't. Likewise, I get to experience many times where vaping satisfies in a way that (currently) smoking can't, such as I get to vape indoors with almost no questions asked.

I really like being a light smoker. There are times when I have 2 to 3 left in a pack going into the night and I'm never frantic. Back in smoking-only days, that would've been cause for anxiety and wondering how I'll make it that night and early the next day. Not anymore. I also look forward to the occasional smoke, and after 2 years of doing both, have no inkling that I may move back to a pack a day, heavy smoking. About the most logs I've smoked in past year was half pack in one day. 2 to 3 days after that, I had zero.

Just as there are thousands of vapers who wish smokers would give up their, ahem, nasty habit and make the full switch, I'm the type of vaper that wishes most, if not all vapers, still had 1 log every day or every other day. Maybe then 'we' could stop throwing smokers under the political bus, which just so happens to make it easier for ANTZ to throw all nicotine addicts under that same bus. At least as far as current politics go.

 

[RedNBlack]

Jolly,

Miss it, not really
Miss the taste/smell of a good tobacco, yes........
CONGRATS on coming over to the "Vape Side"

 

[freeatlast!]

I don't miss smoking, and have been vaping for 2 years.

Then again, I am one that allows myself to smoke and do still have an occasional smoke. IOW, I do both. Around 85% vaping and 15% time smoking, on average.

When I quit cold turkey (in my 20's) for 8.5 years, I very rarely missed smoking then, while feeling very confident I wouldn't have one and while always giving myself permission to have one. Didn't need to hate on smoking to enjoy my life of non-smoking then. Why vapers feel a need to hate on smoking is bizarre to me, but I kinda sorta think I know what is going on there.

I can name 3 to 5 pros that smoking has that vaping doesn't. Some have already been brought up in this thread. Just yesterday when I had a great experience with a log, I felt that a log satisfies in a way that vaping can't. Likewise, I get to experience many times where vaping satisfies in a way that (currently) smoking can't, such as I get to vape indoors with almost no questions asked.

I really like being a light smoker. There are times when I have 2 to 3 left in a pack going into the night and I'm never frantic. Back in smoking-only days, that would've been cause for anxiety and wondering how I'll make it that night and early the next day. Not anymore. I also look forward to the occasional smoke, and after 2 years of doing both, have no inkling that I may move back to a pack a day, heavy smoking. About the most logs I've smoked in past year was half pack in one day. 2 to 3 days after that, I had zero.

Just as there are thousands of vapers who wish smokers would give up their, ahem, nasty habit and make the full switch, I'm the type of vaper that wishes most, if not all vapers, still had 1 log every day or every other day. Maybe then 'we' could stop throwing smokers under the political bus, which just so happens to make it easier for ANTZ to throw all nicotine addicts under that same bus. At least as far as current politics go.

Jman, I wish I could do it that way - I loved smoking. But it became way too important to me, and I couldn't just stop when I wanted to; I would smoke even when I didn't enjoy it....When I tried to quit (only tried 2 or 3 times) I couldn't think of anything but how much I wanted to smoke....

That is one reason I am SO GRATEFUL to vaping - it's the only thing that somehow almost immediately let me NOT want a cigarette any more. HAVING to do something or crave and obsess is not where I want to be again - ever. So I personally do not want to take the chance of getting there again! I don't HATE smoking but I definitely need to stay away from it.

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

Short answer NO!

Sorry, didn't read the other 200+ posts. Good luck and welcome to the forum!

 

[klynnn]

Well if it was 40 years and I knew what I know now. Cigarettes would be the least thing I would be interested in.

 

[Panthersoul]

lol. i dont miss it. but each month i would sit down with a single newport 100. and try to smoke it. even 1/3 of it and i was gagging and felt gross >.< i dont see how i ever started.